Excerpt from Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, From the Earliest Times Till the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol. 8 The houses in Edinburgh, some of them sixteen stories high, were then. Let in stories, or flats, as houses in Paris now are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.